Box Drawing 103

Unicode
U+2566
Category
Dingbats
HTML Entity
╦
CSS
\2566
The ╦ symbol, officially named "Box Drawing Double Down and Horizontal," is a classic text-formatting character inherited from early computing environments like DOS. It is used to create top-edge T-intersections for double-lined tables, borders, and graphical user interfaces in plain text. Today, it remains popular for retro ASCII art, command-line interfaces, and text-based diagrams.

How to Type

Windows
Alt + 9574
macOS
Control + Command + Space, then search "box drawing"
Linux
Ctrl + Shift + U, then 2566
HTML
╦

In Programming

Developers use this character in command-line scripts and terminal applications to construct clean, text-based user interfaces (TUIs) and readable data tables.

Tags

ascii art T-junction border box drawing box drawing double down horizontal cli formatting copy paste symbol dingbat dos character double down horizontal double double line frame retro computing table terminal table text ui top T junction double line unicode box character

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